America’s Spiritual Crisis

~ Understanding the Founding Fathers Beliefs about Human Nature ~

It’s evident from their writings as well as The Declaration of Independence that the founding fathers of our country had a deep faith as well as a good grasp on human nature. What did America’s founders believe about human nature? How might a deeper understanding of their perspective shape the way we think about our current and future challenges to democracy? 

The view of human nature:
that was shared by America’s founding fathers, the implications of its abandonment,
and the tension of fallen human beings entrusted with self-governance will be examined. This conversation of America’s history can help us see the present with fresh insight as we consider how Christians and the Church play a role in the public and political life of the country. 

Dr. Tracy McKenziePh.D., is the Arthur Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and professor of History at Wheaton College, and past Donald Logan Chair in U.S. History
at the University of Washington. 

Since coming to Wheaton, McKenzie has turned his attention to the ways in which Christians in the United States remember (or misremember) American history. A past president of the Conference on Faith and History, a national organization of Christian historians, he is the author of numerous works including The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us about Loving God and Learning from HistoryA Little Book for New Historians: How and Why to Study History, and his newest release, the award-winning We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy.

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We are distracted in our everyday busy lives by going here and there. 
As long as we have dollars in our pocket, a beer in our hand and little left over for a vacation we are satisfied. Give a Chimpanzee a beer and they are content after all those are who we evolve from. We take little time to care for one another and to listen to each other and we are thoughtless most times in our responses. We see very little and want to hear less about the problems in this country and are only reactive, not proactive to what is going on around us. It’s We The People that has gotten away from our values, principles and morals which this country was built on. If we elect to live with a Third World Banana Republic Government ~ thus we will become one sooner than expected. 

The American Founders, in their pursuit of creating a lasting Constitution, drew wisdom from their deep understanding of human nature. Their insights, gleaned from a study of history, allowed them to craft a foundational document that has endured for over two centuries (Almost 248 years to be exact.) 

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Ancient constitutions, particularly Greece and Rome, served as their reference points.
However, the Founders recognized that these ancient regimes were founded on unrealistic notions of human behavior. These notions often swung between extremes: either expecting an unattainable level of civic virtue or assuming that despotism was the only way to prevent chaos and destruction among people1.
The defect in these ancient systems lay in their lack of proper institutions to preserve
both virtue and liberty. The Founders sought to address this by creating a constitution grounded in a more realistic understanding of human nature. They acknowledged both
the positive and negative aspects of human motives. James Madison aptly captured this balance: “As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection & distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem & confidence.

 The Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities to a higher degree than any other form” 1.
By framing the Constitution upon this realistic understanding, the Founders anticipated various political developments. While the forms of tyranny might change over time, the underlying sources—human nature—remain constant. Thus, they crafted a system that balanced civic virtue with liberty, protecting life, liberty, and property from the innate capacity of humans to pursue self-interest2.
In essence, the Founding Fathers built this country upon a foundation that recognized both the potential for virtue and the need for safeguards against human frailties. Their legacy endures, reminding us that understanding human nature remains essential for maintaining a just and enduring society.

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In 1930, with the world plunged into a deep economic depression, economist John Maynard Keynes published a rosy forecast for the future. He predicted that in 100 years, his grandchildren would only need to work 15-hour weeks, and the greatest problem facing a member of society would be “how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.”

Just shy of a century later, Keynes’ prediction couldn’t be further from reality. 
People today feel like they’re stuck on a hamster wheel. As corporate profits soar, wages have failed to keep pace. Millions of Americans juggle multiple jobs to make ends meet. Today, the average worker has to clock 70 hours a week to sustain the same quality of life that 40 hours of work afforded 50 years ago. And for many, cellphones and laptops have made it impossible to ever escape the grip of work, even at home.
With one income no longer enough to sustain an average family budget, parents’ days are lengthened by the extra time necessary to shuttle children to and from childcare.
Contrary to Keynes’ predictions, leisure time isn’t expanding; it’s disappearing. Less and less free time leaves Americans feeling more on edge, more anxious, and more alone than ever before. We are disconnected from each other mentally, physically and emotionally, and we witness the ripple effects in the erosion of civility, the growth of fringe politics, and the increase in violence, suicide and overdose rates. The nation’s emotional health is spiraling in part because there is less and less time for leisure and connection.

Research shows that taking time off from work actually improves productivity and reduces the risk of employee burnout; and public health experts have found that engaging in leisure has significant mental and physical health benefits. That’s not a shocking finding to any normal person. Anyone who works a lot and gets time off for a family event or a mini-vacation feels refreshed and in a better mindset when they get back to work.
As both parents and public servants, we have seen that the cost of this contraction of free time has been catastrophic for our families and communities. We both think of our grandfathers when trying to understand the spiritual impact of leisure time. Chris’ grandfather was an engineer who loved his job, but found the most meaning from the work he did in his free time, like helping to build a community pool or design a new senior housing complex in his town. Tim’s grandfather was a steelworker with a job that paid enough so that off the clock he could tend to his garden, go dancing with his bride and her family, volunteer at church, and attend his grandchildren’s sporting events. He even had enough time to volunteer to help build a new parish school — the one that Tim attended. He literally had time to build Tim’s future.

John Rizzi and Val Murphy had good jobs that made them proud. But much of their purpose and happiness came from the fact that their entire life wasn’t about their careers. It was about something bigger. It was about serving others, and the economy of their era gave them plenty of time to serve. The time that we have to ourselves, and our families is the time that helps restore the health of our souls. For most of us, no matter how much we love our work, these moments are our most joyful — when we find perspective and purpose. If America is facing a spiritual crisis today — a crisis of meaning, identity and belonging — then having more leisure time is the medicine we need.
To return to a time when work matters less and leisure matters more, we need to build a new economy where a full-time job provides a living wage. One 40-hour-a-week income should be able to support a family of four. This would assure the worker has adequate free time, and allow one parent in two-parent households, should he or she choose, to be out of the workforce and engaged in full-time family work. The easiest way to reach this goal would be to raise the federal minimum wage. If the federal minimum wage had simply kept up with inflation, today it would be $27 an hour, instead of the current $7.25. Perhaps a nearly $20 increase would be unrealistic, but we need an aggressive effort to help workers make up for all this lost ground.

Strong labor unions will play a big role, too. Unions spent nearly a century fighting for “eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what you will.” Union organizing is responsible for the few protections we have now between business and personal hours, and stronger unions will be better equipped to fight for better hours, higher wages, reliable pensions and paid leave. That’s why roughly 60% of Americans
feel that the decline in union membership is bad for working people.
We can give unions the boost they need by ensuring federal dollars support union jobs, repealing so-called right-to-work laws that undermine workers, and passing the PRO Act. And we can build on a famous union victory — the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set up the 40-hour workweek.
We haven’t made meaningful adjustments to the workweek in the 85 years since, and a reckoning is long overdue. The pandemic and the rise of remote work upended many workers’ and employers’ concept of work, providing more flexibility for some, while further blurring the distinction between work and personal time for others.

We should look at policies from countries like Japan, Spain and Britain, which have explored the four-day workweek. Early data from Britain, which recently undertook the world’s largest trial of the four-day workweek, demonstrated significant increases in work-life balance and reductions in employee stress. Call us optimists, but a bipartisan effort to give workers more time with their families probably comes with very little political risk.
We also need a national strategy to reinvest in the physical infrastructure that connects communities. We need public investments and tax incentives to rebuild and reinvigorate old downtowns, expand neighborhood parks and athletic facilities, build bike and walking trails, and clean our waters to encourage outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking and canoeing. In other words, invest in the projects that get people out of their homes and offer opportunities for us to connect with each other in communal spaces — all while creating a good number of jobs.

Finally, we also need to acknowledge that there is a growing industry devoted to exploiting our leisure time. Social media platforms are obsessed with occupying every second of our free time and profiting off the data they collect on us. Recent advancements in AI have only accelerated this trend. In 2013, the average American spent about four hours per week on social media and 6 ½ hours per week with close friends.
By 2021, we were spending almost 16 hours per week on social media and just 2 hours and 45 minutes with our friends. Regulating social media and artificial intelligence to make these products less addictive can restore leisure time that enhances spiritual health, rather than companies’ bottom lines.
We both love our jobs. But we know that the good stuff — the happiness that comes from moments connected to family and friends, the fulfillment that comes with honing a craft or skill, the positive feedback loop that comes from helping others — happens off the clock. People are sick of feeling like their own time no longer belongs to them.
They want meaning and connection outside of work and the most basic freedom to enjoy life on their own terms. For too long, policy has failed to realize the metaphysical value of free time and play — even for adults. We need a new economic vision that prioritizes leisure and social connection. That’s the only path to recover the spiritual health of our nation.  Source: America is facing a spiritual crisis. More leisure time is the cure.

~ This article was originally published on MSNBC.com

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Rosamund Dean

After lengthy and harrowing treatment Rosamund is in recovery and determined to live her life differently © Clara Molden

I am a cancer survivor – here’s what I wish I’d known.
Story by Rosamund Dean

It’s not revelatory to say that cancer treatment is hard, but you don’t realize quite how brutal it is until you go through it. My breast cancer treatment involved 16 cycles of chemotherapy, followed by a 10-hour operation and a week in hospital for mastectomy with reconstruction and lymph node clearance. Then 15 rounds of radiotherapy and, finally, six months of adjuvant chemo. It was the worst 18 months of my life.

Happily, I’m now cancer-free, and prepared to do anything to avoid being back in that chemo chair. So I’ve interviewed doctors, scientists, dieticians and immunologists for a new book to identify the anti-cancer steps that work.
I’m not here to make false promises. We all know heavy-drinking chain-smokers who live for a long time, and sadly many of us have known healthy young people with cancer.
Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to it. Yet, data from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) found that, of the 387,000 people diagnosed with cancer in the UK between 2019 and 2020, 40 per cent could have been avoided with lifestyle changes.
People avoid talking about this out of fear of “blaming” cancer patients. I get it. When I was diagnosed, I became obsessed with behaviours of which I’d been “guilty”. I drank too much in my 20s; I had a sedentary job and didn’t exercise; I ate ultra-processed foods and too much sugar; I got too stressed… It took months to drag myself out of this cycle of blame.

Think of this not as a stick with which to beat yourself, but as an opportunity to seize the reins. Consistent small actions are way more powerful than sweeping lifestyle changes that can be overwhelming and end up abandoned. But you can reduce your risk of the disease by choosing to be an active participant in your own wellbeing, rather than a passive victim.

Here’s where to start:
Take regular exercise – it doesn’t have to be for long
Strengthening your body is the most powerful anti-cancer thing you can do. A series of large-scale studies in the past few years have clearly shown a causal effect between a sedentary lifestyle and breast cancer, with regular movement reducing your risk by an astounding 40-60 per cent. That’s worth repeating: trials of hundreds of thousands of patients have shown that exercise halves the risk of recurrence. If these benefits were the result of a new drug, it would make headlines as an enormous breakthrough in cancer treatment. 

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Exercise is the most powerful anti-cancer thing you can do. ‘Just do something you enjoy,’ says Rosamund. So what exactly should we be doing?

Sarah Newman is founder of Get Me Back, an online community for women getting fit after cancer. She says the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendations are 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity each week, so around five 30-minute sessions. “It could be gardening, cleaning, brisk walking, chasing after the kids or going for a jog,” she says. “Then try making half of that time more vigorous cardio, where you’re out of breath, such as running at a faster pace or playing sport.” 
 On top of this, the WHO suggests two strength or resistance sessions a week. Sarah has an introduction to strength training on her YouTube channel @getmebackuk, as well as resistance band workouts (a cheap and easy alternative to  weights) for beginners.
If this sounds overwhelming, there will be something out there that you enjoy doing, whether that’s cycling, walking, dancing – even housework and DIY count. It’s easy to get caught up in whether or not you’re doing the right kind of exercise, but the truth is the best kind of exercise is the one that you will actually do. So stop overthinking it and just get moving.

Cancer survivor nature walks. 
“These events are important because it allows cancer survivors and their family members to be out in the community, out with one another, out in nature, and it provides a place for exercise and for good conversations about things that they are going through,”

Eat right
There is much misinformation out there, so let’s look at what we know for sure.
The WCRF and the American Institute for Cancer Research created guidelines produced by scientists reviewing thousands of scientific papers, now endorsed by the WHO with the caveat that people should treat them as a package, rather than picking one or two. 

They are: keep your weight within the healthy range, and avoid weight gain; be physically active every day; walk more and sit less. Then: eat whole grains, vegetables, fruit and beans as part of your usual diet; limit fast foods and other processed foods high in saturated fat or sugar, as well as cutting down on red meat and eating little, if any, processed meat. Finally: drink water and limit your intake of both sugar-sweetened drinks and alcohol. Note: the WHO recommends meeting your nutritional needs through diet, rather than supplements. 

Rosamund now eats a diet packed with anti-inflammatory foods, below - Rii Schroer
Rosamund now eats a diet packed with anti-inflammatory foods, below – Rii Schroer

These are all sensible points, although I’d argue that a “healthy range” of weight is vague. If someone tells you that smoking or drinking increases your risk, then it’s pretty clear what you need to do. Citing “obesity” as a risk factor is complicated. Many things contribute to the size and shape of a person’s body, including genetics, hormones and environment, so telling someone that they ought to lose weight is too simplistic.

The strongest evidence is around ultra-processed foods, particularly processed meat.
And the way that food is cooked also has an effect: fried or roasted foods are not as good for you. People demonise sugar, but the real issue is the metabolic effects of dramatic blood sugar spikes. This happens LESS with naturally occurring sugars in fruit and veg because the sugar is tempered by the plant fibre.

So added refined sugars are the thing to avoid.
The simplest thing is to focus on “eating the rainbow”, which simply means a variety of different-coloured plant foods. They’re full of phytonutrients: compounds that affect your cellular structure and help prevent disease. Add tomatoes, carrots, beetroot, blueberries and any green veg to your shopping order, and that’s a rainbow.
When it comes to supplements, I agree with the WCRF that it’s better to get nutrients from food, but there are some instances when we need a little extra help. For example, omega-3 if you don’t eat fish, or a B vitamin complex if you’re vegan. And everyone should be taking vitamin D in the winter, particularly if you have darker skin.

While supplements have their place, remember that food is about so much more than nutrients. It’s about love, enjoyment and connection; you can’t get that in a pill.

Cut down on alcohol
Here, the correlation is unequivocal. According to Cancer Research UK, alcohol causes seven different types of cancer, with the evidence linking it to breast cancer particularly robust. “Alcohol is a carcinogen,” says Dr Liz O’Riordan, a breast surgeon who has had breast cancer herself. “We know it can cause cancer by itself, but also alcohol has no nutritional value – it’s only metabolised to fat. And the more fat you have, the more oestrogen you make after the menopause, which increases your risk of breast cancer.” 

After lengthy and harrowing treatment Rosamund is in recovery and determined to live her life differently
After lengthy and harrowing treatment

Rosamund is in recovery and determined to live her life differently. 
The WHO guidance says: “There is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The risk of breast cancer increases with each unit of alcohol consumed per day.” So no matter your starting point, the more you cut down, the more you can reduce your risk.  

Nurture your immune system
“We’re realising that the immune system is highly important, particularly for triple negative tumours,” says Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, a scientist and integrative medicine doctor. “That’s why we’re now treating people up front with immunotherapy. Optimising the immune system is important for reducing the risk of recurrence.” This is because we all have cancer cells floating around in our bodies and, generally, our immune system picks them off like a sniper. Impaired immunity means those cells are more likely to form a tumour. 

Here are several ways to support your immune system. 
For starters, look after your gut. Eat more slowly and include probiotics (like live yoghurt) and prebiotics (like fibre-packed whole plant foods). 
Keeping your blood sugar balanced, by minimising refined sugars and staying active, is also key – fasting for 13 hours overnight with an earlier dinner and no evening snacking gives your system time to repair, and calm inflammation. As does avoiding ultra-processed foods and refined sugars. Move your body and eat anti-inflammatory foods such as garlic, berries, broccoli and leafy green veg.
Eat seasonally: the less the food has to travel, the fresher it will be, and more nutritious.
It’s also vital to manage stress: repeated activation of your body’s stress response impacts everything from your immunity to your hormones.  
Prioritise sleep. The WHO now lists night-shift work as a probable carcinogen.
If you have trouble sleeping, limit caffeine and stick to a regular routine.

‘Reconstruction: How to Rebuild Your Body, Mind and Life After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis’, by Rosamund Dean, is out now (£16.99, HarperCollins)
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Why They Live Longest in Hawaii

The US State That Has The Highest Life Expectancy (healthdigest.com).

If you really want to know what is going on in this country talk to a Cop, Cashier, Taxi Driver and a Barber. And one of my favorites used to be my barber George Romer and before he passed over to the otherside. What George told me years ago, “if you want to learn about the issue of cancer and what causes it, look at the density of population, air pollution and contaminants in our food supply.” Unfortunately, George did eventually
passed from throat cancer and smoking too many damn cigarettes.

This article presents a list of United States and territories sorted by their life expectancy at birth, sex, race, and in the past. The data in the 2018 column is taken from work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the 50 states and the District of Columbia;[3] from the World Bank for GuamPuerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and from the CIA World Factbook for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.[4] Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data.[5]
Overall, life expectancy at birth in HawaiiWashingtonCalifornia, and New York (state) are among the longest in the nation, while life expectancy at birth in Mississippi,  American Samoa, and West Virginia are among the shortest in the nation.
The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine’s life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing
it to having not changed since 2010.[6]   List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy – Wikipedia
Life Expectancy by State 2024 (worldpopulationreview.com)

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The US State That Has the Highest Life Expectancy
BY BETH BRADFORD/JAN. 14, 2024, 7:30 PM EST

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Why They Live Longest in Hawaii – Search Videos (bing.com)
Hawaii has the longest life expectancy at birth out of all 50 states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average, a person born in Hawaii can now expect to live until 80.7 years of age. The factors that go into lifespan are complicated, but a few things that can positively affect life expectancy are diet, exercise and access to medical care.

Hawaii’s rich natural beauty and year-round warm weather are not the only perks of the Aloha State. Research shows Hawaii residents, on average, live the longest out of anyone else in the United States.  
In 2021, the average lifespan in the U.S. followed a now years long
trend by dropping to 76.1 years, the shortest it has been since 1996.  
That decline stems mostly from COVID-19 and overdose deaths,
according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  
But while every state’s life expectancy has decreased since 2019, 
Hawaii is the only state to have not fallen below the 80-year mark.  
The Hill spoke to experts to try to understand why life expectancy in Hawaii is longer
than the national average. Experts agreed on a few things but wanted to stress that not everyone on the archipelago is living a longer life. Disparities concerning life expectancy exist along race, education, income and gender lines. Here are few factors that contribute to the archipelago long-life expectancy.

Low rates of heart disease and cancer  
Apart from COVID-19 and accidents, the leading causes of death in the United States are cardiovascular disease, cancer and stroke.  
In 2020, almost 697,000 people in the U.S. died from cardiovascular disease, and another 602,305 passed away from some type of cancer, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
And while Hawaii residents have their face share of strokes, inhabitants of the archipelago have the second-lowest cardiovascular disease death rate and cancer death rate in the country, according to CDC data. 
Those low rates of cancer deaths and heart disease are, in part, linked to Hawaii’s low smoking rate and relatively low rate of obesity, according to Deborah Carr, a professor of sociology at Boston University.  
Lack of exercise and poor diet are the two main contributors to obesity, and Hawaii residents have a few advantages in those two areas, explained Carr.  
“The fact that they have really temperate weather there helps people to exercise and to walk outdoors,” said Carr. “So, they have that strength going for them.”  
CDC data also show that out of all 50 states, Hawaii has the second lowest obesity rate, with 25 percent of residents 18 years of age and older considered obese.  
While that number has gone up in recent years, it is still far lower than the national average. Meanwhile, about 42 percent of U.S. adults 20 years old and older are considered obese, according to the most recent National Health Statistics report.  

Better access to healthcare 
Along with healthy lifestyle choices, Hawaii residents might have the longest life expectancy out of anyone in the U.S. due to health care on the archipelago, according to Yeonjung Jane Lee, an associate professor of sociology at the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.  
Hawaii ranked the highest out of all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in state health care system performance in 2022, according to a study from the Commonwealth Fund.  
The Aloha State was also deemed the best state for health care in the nation in a U.S. News and World Report analysis published last year. Hawaii earned the top spot in the analysis in part because of the low number of preventable hospital admissions and low uninsured rate.  
Hawaii had 2,109 preventable hospital admissions per 100,000 Medicaid and Medicare patients in 2021, a far fall from the national average of 4,378, according to the U.S. News and World Report analysis.  
The analysis also found that a very small percentage of Hawaii residents are uninsured. Only 5.9 percent of the state’s population between the ages of 19 and 64 doesn’t have health insurance — 7 percentage points lower than the national average.  
This is in part due to the Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare Act, a 1970s-enacted law that requires private employers to provide health insurance to employees who work at least 20 hours a week for at least four weeks a year. 
 
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Sunshine and clean(er) air  

Hawaii is famous for its sunny and temperate climate. And that climate essentially remains unchanged throughout the year. The longest and shortest days of the year only have a two- and half-hour difference in length, at 13.5 and 11 hours respectively, according to the National Weather Service.  
The resulting minimal seasonal variations in climate mean Hawaii gets a constant and plentiful supply of sunshine all year round. That sunshine means that many Hawaii residents get a significant amount of vitamin D, which is essential to maintain good health.  
Adequate vitamin D is needed to keep bones healthy, but some studies show that proper vitamin D intake can protect humans against other diseases like breast cancer and hypertension. 
 
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Lee added that Hawaii’s air quality might also play a role in the state’s extended lifespan. At least two cities in Hawaii, Honolulu and the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina area, made it to the top five cleanest cities for year-round particle pollution in a 2022 American Lung Association “State of the Air” report.  
Studies indeed show that air quality does have an effect on life expectancy. Air pollution takes about 2.2 years off a person’s life expectancy, according to a report from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. 

While many nutritional supplements or alternative therapies might promise a longer life, longevity depends on many factors. A 2023 article in The Lancet says you can look to your family to estimate how long you live, and certain genes combined with your environment factor into your likelihood of developing certain health conditions. Lifestyle also plays a role in how long you live, such as whether or not you consume alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. A healthy diet that limits unhealthy fats, refined sugar, and artificial ingredients can influence your health. Physical, intellectual, and social activity are also included in your longevity.

Your life expectancy can also depend on where you live, according to a 2022 report from the National Center for Vital Statistics. Based on the mortality statistics for 2020, people who live in Hawaii have a life expectancy of 80.7, compared to the national average of 77. Women in Hawaii are expected to live longer (to age 83.8) compared to men in Hawaii (whose life expectancy is 77.6). Residents of Hawaii who have already reached age 65 can expect to live another 21 years.

Why residents of Hawaii might live longer
A 2023 analysis conducted by Ozmosi found that Hawaii has some of the healthiest residents. The study took data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that considered factors such as air quality, prevalence of obesity, chronic disease, and physical activity. Hawaii’s air quality, a lower percentage of inactive people, and a lower obesity rate contributed to its top rating. Hawaii has a mental health program called “Hawaii Cares,” which could point to its lower levels of depression compared to other states. Just 5.35% of people who live in Hawaii have cancer, and less than 5% have coronary heart disease.

Sociologists tell The Hill that Hawaii’s warm climate makes it easier to get outside and exercise. It also has a smaller variation in hours of daylight between the winter and summer solstices, which means more sunshine and healthy vitamin D. Hawaii also has a low percentage of residents who are uninsured because it mandates health insurance for employees who work 20 hours or more a week.

A big difference in life expectancy between states
Life expectancy provides a good snapshot of a state’s quality of life, such as its health habits, health risks, positive community development, and economic resources (per the University of Texas at Austin). You can compare Hawaii’s life expectancy to countries such as Sweden, Iceland, and Canada. The United States has a large discrepancy among states in terms of life expectancy, with an 8.8-year difference between Hawaii and the lowest life expectancy in Mississippi. States in the Deep South have lower life expectancies than those in the Northeast and West Coast. This is partially due to the shift in policies from the federal government to the state government.

A 2020 article in Milbank Quarterly said that states with more liberal policies tend to have longer life expectancies. These policies include how the state approaches tobacco use, civil rights, the environment, gun control, and women’s reproductive health.

Access to healthcare for underserved populations is often cited as the chief reason for poor health outcomes. However, a 2019 article in the Annals of Family Medicine said that access to healthcare can only explain about 10% of premature deaths or unhealthy outcomes. Instead, life expectancy might depend on other factors, such as health behaviors and social circumstances. Unhealthy behaviors include smoking, an unhealthy diet, and a lack of exercise.

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We already know that lifestyle choices can help influence how long you live.
But where you live may also factor into your longevity.
Consider this: in 2019, the U.S. landed at No. 40 for life expectancy when compared to other countries, according to the World Health Organization. With America’s advanced healthcare system in mind, an average life expectancy of 78.5 years, prior to Covid-19, was pretty low.
But there are some states where residents have a better chance at living longer lives, and it may be due, in large part, to their healthy lifestyles.
Life Extension, a company that aims to “extend the healthy human lifespan,” compiled federal data to determine the best states for longevity based on life expectancy at birth and eight lifestyle factors:

Exercise
Healthy diet
Healthy weight
Sleep quality
Stress levels
Social isolation
Proximity to parks

Amount that people spend on outdoor recreation:
States ranked high not only because of long life expectancies, but also if their residents live a healthy lifestyle.
The No. 1 state for a long, healthy life: Hawaii
It’s not surprising that Hawaii landed the number one spot as the best state for longevity. The Aloha State’s life expectancy at birth is 80.7 years, which exceeds all other states and is three years longer than the national average.
But it wasn’t life expectancy alone that helped the state rise to the top. Two-thirds of their residents report that they eat fruits and vegetables every day, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And 82.6% of them also say they have a park or school within a half-mile of their homes, the CDC’s data shows.

Top 10 best states in the U.S. for a long, healthy life
Hawaii
Minnesota and Vermont (tie)
Washington
New Hampshire
Utah
Colorado
Massachusetts
California
Oregon

Washington has the second-highest life expectancy, but it was displaced by Minnesota and Vermont for the No. 2 spot on this list due to lifestyle factors.
More than 80% of Vermonters say they’ve exercised within the past month. While, around 70% of people who reside in Minnesota claim they get sufficient sleep.
Still, Washington didn’t lag far behind, snagging the fourth spot, largely because of its high life expectancy and its residents’ low levels of stress. Less than 30% of those living in the Evergreen State report symptoms of anxiety.

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Why Has American Life-Expectancy Plummeted to a 30-Year Low? (msn.com)

In Florida the further north you go the more south it gets. 
US life expectancy – America is now facing the greatest divide in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years. Holy shit, the scale has a range of 20 years..  Also, North Florida is much more rural, with more limited access to health systems. That one blue colored county in the Panhandle is Leon County and the only reason it’s blue is because
it contains the capital of Tallahassee and its multitude of clinics and hospitals.  I wonder how this correlates with access to affordable Healthcare.  The map correlates almost perfectly with a per capita income map. 

There’s an even better correlation with obesity rates.

Maps show the typical cause of death in each region of America | Daily ...
Look at these Images. County Obesity Rates and life expectancy – Search Images

It tracks down the county in many areas. 
It is. There’s a correlation between wealth/poverty and life expectancy.
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Of course, obesity is also correlated with income level and access to healthcare.
Also North Florida is much more rural, with more limited access to health systems. That one blue colored county in the Panhandle is Leon County and the only reason it’s blue is because it contains the capital of Tallahassee and its multitude of clinics and hospitals.

Why is it that Mississippi, which has a life expectancy of 74.4,
is portrayed as having a much lower life expectancy on this map?

Infant mortality for black babies is astonishingly high in the south.

The Mississippi River is known as cancer alley. All herbicides and pesticides near it end up draining into that river. These chemicals destroy the gut lining and prohibit the transfer of nutrients from plants to humans both leading to higher cancer rates. Look up Dr. Zach Bush for more information.  – Search Videos (bing.com)
Then you get all the fun oil and gas chemicals from LA and TX. Ook, you smoking bro?
Another explanation, there are a lot of obese and poor African Americans that live there..
I respect your objection about poverty. I just ask you to listen to the rich roll podcast with Dr. Zach Bush. I think this could be correlation rather than causation.

As well Wisconsin is totally blue.

While Louisiana very red as well?

The lighter shades of red are where most of the people live.
The very red rural counties along the river have relatively few people. I wish there was an elegant way of simultaneously portraying population density on a map like this, but I can’t think of a good way to do that. A cartogram would achieve this, although it also makes the image more confusing since we’re expecting it to look like a typical map and get distracted when it doesn’t conform to that expectation… Maybe a dot density plot? Basically, within each county, have a number of (very) small dots in rough proportion to population of the county.

Also, the most striking to me is the disparity between red Detroit (Wayne County, MI)
and blue Ann Arbor (Washtenaw County, MI) just west of it. 

What is Southern Minnesota doing?
Anytime somebody starts to look dead, they just rush ’em to the nearby Mayo Clinic, and presto! Alive again! The Mayo Clinic is one of the best hospital systems in the world and runs basically all healthcare in Southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.
That region is generally one of the healthiest states in the country. I live 70 miles or 
112.65 km from that red square in Wisconsin. We should really reevaluate how we are compensating native Americans. They need services and healthcare, not just land. ~Anonymous

Southern Minnesota is the least Scandinavian part of the state.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s more Scandinavian than the average place in the US but not for Minnesota standards. I swear to god those people are immune to everything. My guess is that we just have a culture of healthier eating and exercise. At my work not a single person is obese . We value outdoor activities and staying healthy. Also having mayo probably helps, but my perception is that you only go there for oddball things or specialty treatments. I haven’t had any close family ever go there. 

The twin cities seem to have good hospitals.
The difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and least healthy counties on this map is greater than the difference between US and Mali.  https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
Also, I wish this map used a more varied gradient because the bottom and top percentiles all look the same colour to me. Many of the red spots in the west correlate with native american reservations. Yeah reservations are extremely poor. The county with the lowest life expectancy in the US, Oglala Lakota County, is a reservation. 
Many of the areas in the west correlate with Native American reservations. I go to the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota every year and talk to a lot of the natives there. Part of the reason their life expectancy is so low is because of the high rates of suicide, improper diets, and drugs. Its really heartbreaking actually.

Looking at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
The countries most close to the bottom end of the US spectrum are:
Eritrea – 66.3
Gabon – 66.5
Ethiopia – 66..6
Kenya – 66.8
Madagascar – 67.0
Djibouti – 67.2
Myanmar – 67.2
Pakistan – 67.4

Where you live in America can have a major effect on how young you die.
Story by By Colin Woodard

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On paper, Lexington County, S.C., and Placer County, Calif., have a lot in common.
They’re both big, wealthy, suburban counties with white supermajorities that border on their respective state’s capital cities. They both were at the vanguard of their states’ 20th century Republican advances — Lexington in the 1960s when it pivoted from the racist Dixiecrats; Placer with the Reagan Revolution in 1980 — and twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins. But when it comes to how long their residents can count on living, the parallels fall apart. Placer has a Scandinavia-like life expectancy of 82.3 years. In Lexington, the figure is 77.7, a little worse than China’s.

Or take Maine’s far-flung Washington County,
the poorest in New England where the per capita income is $27,437.
The county is a hardscrabble swath of blueberry fields, forestland and fishing ports that was ravaged by the opioid epidemic and is almost completely white. It has one of the worst life expectancies in the entire Northeast: 75.5 years. But that’s more than six years better than the equally remote, forested, impoverished, white and drug-battered Perry County of eastern Kentucky.

The truth of life expectancy in America is that places with comparable profiles —
similar advantages and similar problems — have widely different average life outcomes depending on what part of the country they belong to.
Step back and look at a map of life expectancy across the country and the geographic patterns are as dramatic as they are obvious. If you live pretty much anywhere in the contiguous U.S., you can expect to live more than 78 years, unless you’re in the Deep South or the sprawling region I call Greater Appalachia, a region that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to the Ozarks and the Hill Country of Texas.

Those two regions — which include all or parts of 16 deep red states and a majority of the House Republican caucus — have a life expectancy of 77, more than four and a half years lower than on the blue-leaning Pacific coastal plain. 
In the smaller, redder regional culture of New France (in southern Louisiana) the gap is just short of six years. So large are the regional gaps that the poorest set of counties in predominantly blue Yankee Northeast actually have higher life expectancies than the wealthiest ones in the Deep South. At a population level, a difference of five years is like the gap separating the U.S. from decidedly non wealthy Mongolia, Belarus or Libya, and six years gets you to impoverished El Salvador and Egypt.

It’s as if we are living in different countries.
Because in a very real historical and political sense, we are.
The geography of U.S. life expectancy — and the policy environments that determine it — is the result of differences that are regional, cultural and political, with roots going back centuries to the people who arrived on the continent with totally different ideas about equality, the proper role of government, and the correct balance point between individual liberty and the common good.
Once you understand how the country was colonized — and by whom — a number of insights into Americans’ overall health and longevity are revealed, along with some paths to improve the situation.
As was discussed in a widely read article on gun violence earlier this year, when it comes to defining U.S. regions you need to forget the Census Bureau’s divisions, which arbitrarily divide the country into a Northeast, Midwest, South and West, using often meaningless state boundaries and a depressing ignorance of history.
The reason the U.S. has strong regional differences is precisely because our swath of the North American continent was settled in the 17th and 18th centuries by rival colonial projects that had very little in common, often despised one another and spread without regard for today’s state (or even international) boundaries.

Those colonial projects — Puritan-controlled New England; the Dutch-settled area
around what is now New York City; the Quaker-founded Delaware Valley; the Scots Irish-dominated upland backcountry of the Appalachians; the West Indies-style slave society in the Deep South; the Spanish project in the southwest and so on — had different religious, economic and ideological characteristics.
They settled much of the eastern half and southwestern third of what is now the U.S. in mutually exclusive settlement bands before significant third party in-migration picked up steam in the 1840s. In the process — as I unpacked in my 2011 book American Nations:
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America — they laid down the institutions, cultural norms and ideas about freedom, social responsibility and the provision of public goods that later arrivals would encounter and, by and large,
assimilate into.
Some states lie entirely or almost entirely within one of these regional cultures (Mississippi, Vermont, Minnesota and Montana, for instance). Other states are split between the regions, propelling constant and profound internal disagreements on politics and policy alike in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, California and Oregon.

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These women, pictured in 2016, live in Manhattan, N.Y., in the New Netherland region where life expectancy is 80.9 years, far higher than in other regions like Greater Appalachia and the Deep South.
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At Nationhood Lab, a project I founded at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, we use this regional framework to analyze
all manner of phenomena in American society and how one might go about responding
to them.
We’ve looked at everything from gun violence and attitudes toward threats to democracy to Covid-19 vaccination ratesrural vs. urban political behavior and the geography of the 2022 midterm elections. This summer we’ve been drilling down on health, including a detailed examination of the geography of life expectancy published earlier this week.
Working with our data partners Motivf, we parsed the rich trove of county-level life expectancy estimates calculated from the Centers for Disease Control data for the years 2017-2020 by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Ranking and Roadmaps project.

We wanted to answer the bottom-line question:
Is your region helping extend your life or shorten it?


The results show enormous gaps between the regions that don’t go away when you parse by race, income, education, urbanization or access to quality medical care. They amount to a rebuke to generations of elected officials in the Deep South, Greater Appalachia and New France — most of whom have been Republican in recent decades — who have resisted investing tax dollars in public goods and health programs.
“We don’t have these differences in health outcomes because of individual behaviors, it’s related to the policy environments people are living in,” says Jeanne Ayers, who was Wisconsin’s top public health official during the Covid pandemic and is now executive director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People, a collaboration of 11 national public health agencies probing the links between political participation and health. “Your health is only 10 percent influenced by the medical environment and maybe 20 or 30 percent in behavioral choices. The social and political determinants of health are overwhelmingly what you’re seeing in these maps.”

A barn stands past a road sign outside Sandwich, Ill. There are fewer counties where most people can afford and access top-notch clinical care in the southern regions than the northern and Pacific coast ones.
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A barn stands past a road sign outside Sandwich, Ill. There are fewer counties where most people can afford and access top-notch clinical care in the southern regions than the northern and Pacific coast ones. © Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

I shared these maps with cardiologist Donald Lloyd-Jones, a past president of the American Heart Association who chairs the preventive medicine department at Northwestern University in Chicago, who said they didn’t surprise him at all.
“There’s a reason why the Southeastern portion of this country is called the Stroke Belt: It’s because the rates of stroke per capita are substantially higher there and mirrored by rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and other risk factors.”

“The places on your map where you see orange and red have structural and systemic
issues that limit people’s ability to have socioeconomic opportunity, access health care, or achieve maximum levels of education,” Lloyd-Jones added. “All of these policies affect your health and these disparities in longevity absolutely reflect social and structural and historical policies in those regions.”

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At Nationhood Lab we wondered if all of this might just be a reflection of wealth. Some American regions have always had higher standards of living than others because their cultures prioritize the common good over individual liberty, social equality over economic freedom and quality services more than low taxes.
The Deep South was founded by English slave lords from Barbados who didn’t care about shared prosperity; The Puritan founders of Yankeedom — who thought God had chosen them to create a more perfect society — very much did, and it made the average person materially a lot better off, both then and now. Maybe the differences between the regions would go away if you compared just rich counties to one another or just the poor ones?

Nope.
We used the prevalence of child poverty as our metric and compared the life expectancy
of the least impoverished quartile of U.S. counties — the “richest” ones, in other words — across the regions. As you see in the graphic below, the gaps persisted: 4.6 years between the rich counties in the Left Coast and Deep South, for instance. And they got wider from there when we compared the counties with the highest percentage of children living in poverty: a staggering 6.7 years between those same two regions.
Further, the life expectancy gaps between rich and poor counties within each of these regions varied: It was more than twice as wide in Greater Appalachia (3.4 years) and the Deep South (4.3 years) as in Yankeedom (1.7 years.) We saw similar patterns when we repeated the exercise using education levels. When it comes to life and death, some regions are less equal than others.

The same went for relative access to quality clinical care. CHRR assigns every U.S. county a ranking for this based on a combination of 10 factors, including the number of doctors, dentists, mental health professionals, mammography screens, flu vaccinations and uninsured people per capita, as well as how often Medicare enrollees wind up admitted to hospitals with conditions that should be able to be treated on an outpatient basis, an indication the latter services weren’t available. We compared those counties in the top quartiles of this ranking system to one another across the regions and found the gap between them not only persisted, it actually widened, with the Deep South falling about two and half years behind Yankeedom, El Norte and the Far West, 4.4 years behind New Netherland and 5.1 behind Left Coast.
We repeated the experiment using counties that fell in the worst quartile for clinical care and saw the gap grow even wider, with Greater Appalachian (74.6) and Deep Southern (74.7) life expectancy in those communities lagging Yankeedom by about 3 years and New Netherland by about five and a half. That there are fewer counties where most people can afford and access top-notch clinical care in these southern regions than the northern and Pacific coast ones isn’t really a surprise: laissez-faire political leaders tend to create systems that have looser health insurance regulations, leaner Medicaid programs and fewer public and nonprofit hospitals. That those that do manage to have decent services nonetheless underperform suggests reversing these gaps won’t be easy.

Turns out even the “haves” are not doing better in the “laissez-faire” regions. One of the most arresting facts that emerged from our analysis was that the most impoverished quartile of U.S. counties in Yankeedom (ones where around 30 to 60 percent of children live in poverty) have a higher life expectancy than the least impoverished quartile of U.S. counties (where child poverty ranges from 3 to 15 percent) in the Deep South by 0.3 years. Those are both big regions (circa 50 million people each) with a wide mix of counties: rural, urban, rich, poor, blue-collar and white-collar, agricultural and industrial.
If you compare the poorest category of counties in (completely urbanized) New Netherland to the richest ones in Deep South, the former has a 0.4-year advantage in life expectancy. And people in the Left Coast’s poorest quartile of counties live 2.4 years longer than those in the richest quartile counties in the Deep South.

I asked CHRR’s co-director, Marjory Givens, for her reaction to the gaps. “This is logical considering the overall values and variation in health and opportunity of Yankeedom are more favorable than the Deep South or Greater Appalachia,” she said. “There are regions of the country with structural barriers to health, where types of long-standing discrimination and disinvestment have occurred through policies and practices applied and reinforced by people with more power. … Counties in these regions have fewer social and economic opportunities today.”
One example: States that have expanded Medicaid eligibility have seen significant reductions in premature deaths while those that have not have seen increases. At this writing, 11 states still haven’t expanded the state-implemented program even though almost the entire burden of doing so comes from the federal government.
All but two of those states are controlled by the Deep South and Greater Appalachia. Just one — Wisconsin — is in Yankeedom, and its Democratic governor has been trying to expand it through a (vigorously gerrymandered) Republican legislature. Expansion was a no-brainer for Republican administrations in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Vermont, but a bridge too far for their colleague’s further south.

“You can have policies that can meaningfully change life expectancy: reduce drug overdoses, expand Medicaid, adopt gun control, protect abortion and maternal health,” says data scientist Jeremy Ney.
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“You can have policies that can meaningfully change life expectancy: reduce drug overdoses, expand Medicaid, adopt gun control, protect abortion and maternal health,” says data scientist Jeremy Ney. © Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Or take New Netherland, the Dutch-settled area around what’s now New York City. Despite its density, diversity and income inequalities — and contrary to the “urban hellhole” rhetoric of the extreme right — it’s one of the healthiest places to live in the U.S., with an overall life expectancy of 80.9 years.
“You can have policies that can meaningfully change life expectancy: reduce drug overdoses, expand Medicaid, adopt gun control, protect abortion and maternal health,” says data scientist Jeremy Ney, author of the American Inequality data project. “That New Netherland region ticks the box on all five of those.”

Before you ask, yes, we also compared just rural and just urban counties across the American Nations model’s regions and the gaps persisted. As expected, life expectancy is better in urban places in all the regions, but the gap between urban and rural counties almost disappeared in Yankeedom — where even the smallest municipalities often have powers comparable to those of counties in other regions — and the Far West. The latter was a bit surprising given the vast open spaces typical of that region, which fosters the social isolation that has contributed to the region’s frighteningly high suicide rates.
And, given that Black Americans have a nearly four-year disadvantage in life expectancy compared to whites, we looked at racial disparities across the regions. Echoing what we saw between rich and poor counties, there are big gaps in whites-only life expectancy across the regions, with whites in Greater Appalachia dying 3.6 years sooner than whites on the Left Coast and 4.4 years sooner than those in New Netherland. In the Deep South, the region with the distinction of having had the continent’s most repressive formal slave and racial caste systems, the gap with the three aforementioned regions was almost identical — just a tenth of a year better than Greater Appalachia. Three centuries of formal white supremacy hasn’t served whites very well.

Five years ago, University of Cincinnati sociologist Jennifer Malat and two colleagues probed a related question: Given the legacy of white privilege in American society, why do white people have lower life expectancy than their counterparts in Canada and Western Europe, as well as per capita suicide and psychiatric disorder rates far higher than their Black, Asian or Latino peers? Their conclusion: “Whiteness encourages whites to reject policies designed to help the poor and reduce inequality because of animosity toward people of color as well as being unaware that the poor include a great many white people.” Other wealthy countries, they noted, produce poverty rates similar or greater than ours, but they have stronger welfare systems that buffer much of the population from the health problems that often flow from poverty. Whatever the reason, our data definitely show a relationship between social spending and health outcomes for white people across regions.

That said, African Americans actually fare a bit better, relatively speaking, in Greater Appalachia (where their life expectancy is 74.2) than in many other regions, including the Deep South (where it’s 73.6) and even the Far West (74.1) and Yankeedom (73.6). But starkest is that the Midlands — home to cities such as Baltimore, Philadelphia and St. Louis with some of the worst racial disparities in the country — becomes the least healthy region for Black people, with life expectancy falling to just 73 years, which is lower than the overall 2020 figure for Peru. By contrast, the super-densely populated New York City region (New Netherland) remains one of the best for Black longevity, at 76.9 years, 3.9 years higher. The bottom line is that Black/white health disparities are real and enormous, but they don’t really explain the big gaps between U.S. regions.

States that have expanded Medicaid eligibility (like Virginia, pictured) have seen significant reductions in premature deaths while those that have not have seen increases.
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States that have expanded Medicaid eligibility (like Virginia, pictured) have seen significant reductions in premature deaths while those that have not have seen increases. © Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Analyzing Hispanic life expectancy provides some fresh twists. Hispanics actually have much higher life expectancy than whites in the U.S. Researchers call this the “Hispanic Paradox” because it confounds the usual associations between socioeconomic status and life expectancy, and they’ve spent considerable time trying to understand why without reaching a solid consensus. It has been established — by demographers Alberto Palloni and Elizabeth Arias — that Cuban and Puerto Rican Americans don’t have better life expectancy than whites, but Mexican-Americans do.

I share this background because, curiously, we found that Hispanic life expectancy is relatively poor in El Norte (80.7 years) and the Far West (81.1), the two regions where people of Mexican descent presumably form a supermajority of the “Hispanic” population. New Netherland — home to the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans on Earth, including San Juan — isn’t that great either, at 82.7. Surprisingly, southern regions do really well, with Tidewater and New France hitting the upper 80s to top the list, though you might want to take the latter finding with a grain of salt as the number of Hispanics there is pretty small.
Keith Gennuso of the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute says the reason Hispanic life expectancy is worse in El Norte is likely linked to centuries of discrimination. “Unjust housing policies and forced land dispossessions, immigration enforcement, racial profiling, taxation laws and historical trauma, among numerous other issues, all act as barriers to equal health opportunities for these populations at the border, with known impacts across generations,” he noted. Other researchers have found the mortality advantage is greatest among Mexicans in communities where they are more insulated from less healthy U.S. dietary and lifestyle choices than those of Mexican descent who have been in the U.S. for decades or centuries.

Regional differences persist in other measures of health outcomes that contribute to mortality. With public health researchers at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Minnesota, we looked at several of them and published our conclusions in  academic journals.
Obesity, diabetes and physical inactivity all followed the same general regional pattern, with the bad outcomes concentrated in the Deep South, Greater Appalachia, New France and First Nation at the bottom of the list for all three (and El Norte for diabetes.)
“It’s no big surprise when you look at county-level data that the southern regions have higher prevalence of these things, but never has the relationship been so clean as with the American Nations settlement maps,” says lead author Ross Arena, a physiologist at the University of Illinois-Chicago who studies the health effects of exercise.

The most impoverished quartile of U.S. counties in Yankeedom have a higher life expectancy than the least impoverished quartile of U.S. counties in the Deep South by 0.3 years.
The most impoverished quartile of U.S. counties in Yankeedom have a higher life expectancy than the least impoverished quartile of U.S. counties in the Deep South by
0.3 years. © Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

“The gaps you see in life expectancy are just the tip of the iceberg because our health system is really good at keeping unhealthy people alive through medications and surgeries. The regional gap in people’s health span — how many years of your life are you living with a high quality of life with independence and functionality — is probably even greater because it lines up with smoking, access to healthy foods and these other factors.”

So how to improve the situation?
Lloyd Jones, the preventive medicine expert at Northwestern University, says it’s all about the policy environment people live in. “If you just want to move the needle on longevity in the short term, aggressive tobacco control and taxation policies are about the quickest way you can do that,” he says.
“But for the long term we really have to launch our children into healthier trajectories by giving them great educational and socioeconomic opportunities and access to clean air and water and healthy foods.” SOURCE: Southerners Die Younger Than Other Americans.
It’s Not Why You Think. (msn.com)
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Rehab Like A Champion

In her crash in Cortina, Shiffrin sprained her MCL, reaggravated a bone bruise from earlier this season and suffered a high-ankle sprain in the same leg. © Mario Buehner-Weinrauch/IMAGO  

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After one of the scariest crashes of her career, Mikaela Shiffrin is relieved it wasn’t worse. 
The American skier with a record 95 World Cup wins is “pretty sore,” her coach said, but doesn’t appear to have any ligament damage in her left knee. She won’t race again this weekend, though, and it’s unclear when she’ll return.  “She’s actually quite good,” U.S. team coach Paul Kristofic said after Shiffrin slammed into the safety nets at high speed during a World Cup downhill on Friday.
“She’s positive and in a certain way relieved,” Kristofic told The Associated Press.
“Because it could have been worse. But she’s pretty sore, as you are for most speed crashes. But she was quite upbeat about things.” Shiffrin lost control while landing a jump in a patch of soft snow on the upper portion of the Olympia delle Tofane course that will be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Then she slammed into the net at high speed.
Medics tended to Shiffrin immediately and she limped off the course with her left boot raised off the snow. As per the protocol in Cortina, Shiffrin was loaded into a helicopter and taken halfway down the mountain to a landing area for further evaluations.
Then she was transported by ambulance to a hospital in Cortina. 

<p>AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati</p> A helicopter flies evacuating United States' Mikaela Shiffrin after she crashed during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill race, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Shiffrin crashed into the safety nets after losing control landing a jump during a World Cup women's downhill on Friday.

A helicopter flies evacuating United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin after she crashed during an alpine ski, women’s World Cup downhill race, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Shiffrin crashed into the safety nets after losing control, landing a jump during a World Cup women’s downhill on Friday.  AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati

Resemblance of December 12, 2015:
 Mikaela Shiffrin injures right knee in crash – NBC Sports
Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin was taken by ambulance to a clinic in Italy for a leg injury. The US Ski & Snowboard Team said her ACL and PCL “seem intact” after analysis.
Shiffrin thanked fans for their support in a post on social media after the injury.
Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin was taken to a clinic by ambulance from a skiing event in Italy following a crash on the slope.
On Friday, the US Ski & Snowboard Team said in a statement that Shiffrin, 28, was evaluated for a left leg injury at a local clinic in Cortina d’Ampezzo. According to the post on X (formerly Twitter), Shiffrin’s ACL and PCL “seem intact” after an initial analysis.

The US Ski Team said it will provide “further details” as they come.
The crash occurred midway through Shiffrin’s run on the slope, when the two-time gold medalist lost control and crashed into surrounding nets, according to CNN. The outlet reported that Shiffrin was seen limping and relying on her skis to support her weight as medical officials attended to her after the crash. Shiffrin — who clinched her 87th victory last March, breaking Ingemar Stenmark record of 86 total wins — took to X
to let fans know that she’s in good spirits amid the injury.
As of now, Mikaela Shiffrin has an impressive 95 World Cup wins in alpine skiing, making her the all-time leader in FIS Alpine Ski World Cup career victories. This remarkable achievement places her eight wins ahead of the legendary Ingemar Stenmark, who held the previous record with 86 wins. Notably, the closest female competitor is the retired Lindsey Vonn, who achieved 82 World Cup wins during her career1.

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Shiffrin’s dominance extends beyond just wins.

Here are some other key numbers from her incredible career:
17 global medals: Mikaela Shiffrin has graced the podium 17 times at the Olympic Games and World Championships. Her medal collection includes two golds and a silver at the Olympic Winter Games, as well as seven golds, four silvers, and three bronzes at World Championship events.
6 consecutive World Championships golds (2013–2023): Shiffrin’s consistency and excellence have led her to win gold medals in six consecutive World Championships,
a remarkable feat.
150 World Cup podiums: Among these podium finishes, she has an astounding
82 in slalom, which is the most by any skier in a single discipline, regardless of gender.
14 seasons on the World Cup circuit: Shiffrin has been a force to be reckoned with for 14 seasons, from 2010/11 through 2023/24.
15 Crystal Globes: These include five overall Crystal Globes and ten discipline titles (seven in slalom, two in giant slalom, and one in super-G). Her seven slalom titles set an all-time record in a single discipline.
58 World Cup slalom wins: Shiffrin’s dominance in slalom ranks her at the top for any skier, male or female, in a single discipline.
22 World Cup giant slalom wins: She surpassed the previous women’s record held by Vreni Schneider.
17 victories in a single season: In the 2018/19 season, Shiffrin set the FIS World Cup record for the most wins in one season.
First skier to win in all six World Cup disciplines: Shiffrin has triumphed in downhill, super-G, slalom, giant slalom, combined, and parallel races, making her the only person, man or woman, to achieve this feat.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s journey began on March 13, 1995, when she was born in Vail, Colorado, USA. She raced her first World Cup event in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czechia, a day before her 16th birthday in 20111.

Her achievements continue to inspire fans and fellow athletes alike. 🏆🎿

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Despite the incident during competition, Shiffrin said she’s still smiling. 
Adding onto her post on X, Shiffrin wrote, “But oh my god…looking at
the results for our team makes me smile so much.”

Shiffrin wrote later on Instagram.
“Very thankful it’s not worse, but I’m pretty sore at the moment.”
She fell about 20 seconds into her run just before the narrow Tofana schuss — or chute — through walls of rock, which is the most characteristic feature of the biggest women’s race of the season. “It’s tricky there,” Kristofic said, “because you’re landing it and it’s a left-footed turn that has a pretty sharp drop. And she was carrying more speed than she did in the training run. And then she probably trimmed a little more line than she should have. And it pushed her about a meter too far left. And that’s where the terrain change is quite abrupt.
“So it loaded the ski up like crazy and that’s when things started. She tried to save it but she knew at that point where she was in trouble. So, she was actually trying not to hit the next gate, and that’s when it just caught and she went flying into the net.”
In an otherwise record-breaking career, Shiffrin had some high-profile mishaps at the Beijing Olympics two years ago, when she didn’t finish three of her five individual races.

“She doesn’t fall often,” Kristofic said. “But it can happen. It just goes to show you how on the limit athletes push and and how the courses push them. And they have to if they want to be competitive.” Shiffrin said she won’t race again in Cortina this weekend, and will also sit out a giant slalom at the nearby Kronplatz resort on Tuesday.
“Beyond that, it’s quite hard to say right now,” Shiffrin added. “Need a little time to process with my team and see how everything is feeling in the coming days!”
Attempting to match Annemarie Moser-Pröll’s record with a sixth overall title, Shiffrin holds a 340-point lead over Lara Gut-Behrami, with Federica Brignone 422 points back.

Other top skiers also crashed. Brignone got up and skied down after she went down. Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter pulled up midway down her run, clutched her left knee, and was airlifted away. Suter tore her ACL and damaged her meniscus and is out for the season.
Michelle Gisin, a two-time Olympic champion, hurt her right tibia and won’t race again this weekend. In all, 12 of 52 starters didn’t finish the race, which was won by Stephanie Venier of Austria.
The downhill was held amid clear and sunny conditions but warm temperatures.
Shiffrin and Brignone became the fourth and fifth former overall World Cup champions
to crash in the past two weeks following season-ending injuries to Alexis Pinturault,  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Petra Vlhova
“Thank you all for your support,” Shiffrin wrote, along with resharing the US Ski Team’s statement. Shiffrin set for return after hectic start to year – Search Videos (bing.com)

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Mikaela Shiffrin admits overall World Cup title chances are ‘mathematically a huge stretch’. While making progress in her injury recovery, the double Olympic champion acknowledges she was unable to anticipate her return to competition.

The double Olympic champion is recovering from an injury suffered in the Cortina d’Ampezzo downhill at the end of January: “I have been progressing well. I’m feeling better and better each day,” she said on a video posted on her Instagram account.

“I’ve been able to get on snow this week. I have done some easy light volume and slalom open gates on flat terrain for two days. I’ve also tested it out with some light GS free skiing, and things are feeling pretty good.

“Over the next 10 days, we will be looking to ramp up into a little bit more with a little bit faster speeds … riding course setting, ideally a little bit more of an aggressive surface that is a bit more similar to a race venue.”

Mikaela Shiffrin on anticipating her comeback: ‘It just wasn’t possible…’
After Sunday’s first Super G in Val di Fassa, Italy, was cancelled due to heavy snow, Shiffrin will miss three of the remaining nine races scheduled until the end of the season. She currently trails leader Lara Gut-Behrami by 205 points, and the deficit (with 100 points awarded to the winner of each race) could even double when she returns in Are.

“As soon as we realised that Andorra and Val di Fassa were not going to be possible,
I had to kind of come to terms with the fact that the overall would mathematically be
a really huge stretch,” she admitted. “It’s not really about fighting or not fighting for it.
It just wasn’t possible. Believe me, I would have tried if I remotely thought that I could
just simply make it to the finish of a course somewhere safely, I would have tried. 

That is not in the cards yet, but I’m getting there.”
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Shiffrin confessed that being away from the races offered her the chance to
watch them with a ‘fresh perspective’ and to ‘appreciate the level of skiing’:

“Lara (Gut-Behrami) in particular has been stunning to watch. She is really at such a high level of racing right now. As much as I want to be competitive with that right now, we all just have to sit back and appreciate that and it was so exciting to watch AJ (Hurt) get her first GS podium in Andorra, and Paula (Moltzan) get her third World Cup podium in the slalom. It was so much fun to watch my team-mates do that there, and I just wish that I was there to celebrate with them.”

The glow from a laptop screen illuminates the greatest ski racer of all time near the end
of another historic World Cup season. Historic, this time, in two ways: for her continued domino-toppling of all records in sight—and for another injury that in all likelihood will cost her any chance at winning another World Championship this season, as she has in four of the last five years.  Mikaela Shiffrin is in Norway, working her way back. Again. She’s not considering her long-term legacy. It’s still far too soon. She’s focused instead on immediate impacts: on the next generation; on her sport, its popularity, its place in wider pantheons of what humans pay attention to and pay to watch; and, now more than ever, what it demands from its top athletes.

Shiffrin will return this weekend in Åre, Sweden, where she won her first race, set the all-time wins record, sustained her first injury and where she returned to competition after the death of her father. Eric Bolte/USA TODAY Sports
Shiffrin will return this weekend in Åre, Sweden, where she won her first race, set the
all-time wins record, sustained her first injury and where she returned to competition
after the death of her father. © Eric Bolte/USA TODAY Sports

The destination—dominance—never changes. 
Shiffrin wins races within her primary specialty, slalom events, at unprecedented rates. She also nabs speed crowns and combined victories. On March 13, she will turn 29, and yet, she has already won 95 World Cup races, or nine more than the legend, Ingemar Stenmark, who held the previous all-time mark, the one long considered out of reach. She’s not done and doesn’t appear that close to considering retirement. 
Not yet. Shiffrin, when healthy, continues to ski further and further away from all competition except the only competitor she has left: Mikaela Shiffrin.  She must now be defined in only the loftiest terms. By the best kind of brilliance (often) and spectacular failure (rarely but publicly). By World Cup wizardry and Olympic disappointment. By love, laughter and loss. By injuries and grief. And by deep, personal, public introspection that few, if any, famous athletes would ever dare present to the world.

Shiffrin is all those things. She’s also bunkered down inside a rental cabin in Norway;
her room sandwiched between those occupied by her mother, Eileen, and her physical therapist. She describes the space as cozy, meaning wintry and not huge. There are bunk beds in her room and wooden planks overhead and a piano, the one she can’t stop playing. She had booked the cabin in case she could compete. She continues rehabbing her injured knee, healing, making songs.
Shiffrin cannot read sheet music. But she has played the piano since childhood, primarily through sound. Proof that Shiffrin can do pretty much anything lies there. She hears a song, places fingers on keyboards and just plays by ear—everything from Taylor Swift covers to melodies of her own creation. She obviously cannot travel with a piano, and since most hotels don’t have them, any opportunity to soothe anxiety and alleviate pressure and feel human is rare and embraced. 

There’s one problem in Norway—the piano’s location is in her room.
Shiffrin cannot play too late or too loudly. She must play in something like a musical whisper, tapping out chill tunes meant to elicit calm, positive vibes, while not annoying
her neighbors. This is vintage Mikaela Shiffrin, funny and reflective and relatable.
Injuries happen. So will more history, as long as she doesn’t focus on her job,
winning, or where and how she breaks whatever record she’ll topple next.

Dropping soon: new album, Mikaela Shiffrin’s Recovery Instrumentals.
This weekend, she will also return to the competition where magic tends to happen when she skis. Shiffrin won her first World Cup race in Åre, Sweden, along with her all-time record-tying (No. 86) and breaking (87) races. It’s where she sustained her very first injury—and where she returned to competition after her father died.
Also dropping soon: Mikaela Shiffrin, rebuilt once more, steeled beyond belief and ready, above all, to produce another round of magic.
World Cup victory No. 95 unspooled in Slovakia in January. Shiffrin won that race
by the slimmest of margins, 14-hundredths of a second. She climbed onto a medal podium for the 150th time. In a recap email, her reps briefly laid out her plan for the weeks ahead.
Head to Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; finish training for the upcoming speed series events; and, ideally, cement another overall season championship, good for six total, tied for the most ever.

“I actually remember everything,” Shiffrin says of the day these plans suddenly changed.
The courses that officials set up in Cortina had “a ton of terrain” layered into them. “They built more terrain on purpose,” Shiffrin says. “And the landing zones weren’t completely thought out.” She launches into an explanation of her injury, which is complex and heavy with jargon but centers on ideal lines for racers, how rarely they actually take them and how more terrain meant more racing farther off ideal lines.
Alpine skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin admitted that trying to win her sixth overall World Cup title this season has become a ‘huge stretch’ as she confirmed she
would return to racing in Are, Sweden, on 9 and 10 March. 

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WHY – Is Eternal ANSWERLESS

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Eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is a philosophical concept of predeterminism which hypothesizes that all events in the world repeat
themselves in the same sequence through an eternal series of cycles.
One of the core tenets of Eternal Return is the seemingly metaphysical
perspective change from a linear concept of time to a cyclic universe.

Although notions of framing exist in terms of endlessly repeating cycles have
existed since antiquity, the concept was revived in the 19th century by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Having briefly presented the idea as a thought experiment in The Gay Science,
he explored it more thoroughly in his novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in which the
protagonist learns to overcome his horror of the thought of eternal return. 
It is not known whether Nietzsche believed in the literal truth of eternal return, or, if he did not, what he intended to demonstrate by it. In any case, opinion is divided among Nietzsche scholars about its subjective religious connotations, but many agree that it is an undeveloped philosophical concept, and therefore somewhat notorious as a philosophical tool.

Nietzsche’s ideas were subsequently taken up and re-interpreted by other writers, such as Russian esotericist P. D. Ouspensky, who argued that it was possible to break the cycle of return.
So one of the things that jumped out at me from looking at some of Nietzsche’s Eternal Work is the concept of eternal return or eternal recurrence, and I know that a lot of people will argue that it’s a thought experiment and it’s not meant to be taken literally, but the idea of living the same life over
 and over again is honestly terrifying to me, and I think it would be scary for a lot of other people. As an atheist, I get a lot of comfort from the idea that death is final, that there’s no other life after this.
That’s why I’m wondering if recently there’s been anyone that’s debunked or disproven eternal recurrence, or at the very least, given some substantial reasons why it’s not true.
The best proof I’ve heard so far is that we don’t really have any evidence that it is, beyond looking too deeply into cosmological models of the universe and ideas like the Big Bounce.
Have any modern philosophers tried to debunk the concept?
The idea of living the same life over and over again is honestly terrifying to me, and I think it would be scary for a lot of other people.

Well, that’s kind of the point. One of the many ways to characterize the Ubermensch is exactly to see it as the man that not only is not scared by this but who would be happy of it:
What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness, and say to you, “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? 

Have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: “You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” This is the aim of his philosophy in a sense(once again, it is just one of the characterizations).The major difficulty with the eternal return – as a physical thesis – is that there’s no reason to think it’s true. If we take the physical reading of the return, then it must mean that Nietzsche is arguing that an eternal return must happen because, essentially, of determinism. (Skipping a bit over Nietzsche’s critique of causality, I guess.) Yet, if that is Nietzsche’s argument, then he hasn’t done the work to show that the universe is the kind of system which actually works that way.
It is true that you can set up deterministic systems wherein there is a perfect repetition
of the same. Think about, say, a clock with however many hands you want to give it.
Every 12 hours the clock’s hands retrace the exact same relative positions with respect
to one another – over and over. 

There are more complicated examples too (as in the Poincaré recurrence theorem, though only initial states recur and not ever state), but these are just examples of specific systems which recur in specific ways. Nietzsche’s argument (on this reading) is that every state will recur in a totally precisely matching order.
So, Nietzsche has not even shown that the universe is such a system that could plausibly recur, much less one that does or must recur. In fact, if you can show that the universe includes even one system which won’t recur, then it seems like Nietzsche must be wrong, again assuming that Nietzsche is referring to the whole universe recurring.
(Famously, George Simmel claimed that such a system is almost trivial to cook up, and suggests we imagine three circles with the same circumference that are spinning on the same axis at specific, different rates (1:2:1/pi).)

Anyway, sometimes people report being freaked out by philosophical theories which describe things which are possible, but might not be true. The trouble with the Eternal Return, as a physical thesis, is that Nietzsche hasn’t even given us a reason to think it’s possible in the universe we occupy. Insofar as we can imagine it, we’re really only imagining something rather small constrained – so much so that I don’t think we’d even be right to conclude it’s logically possible (since some people argue that logical possibility consists in imagineability).All of that is to say, I’d recommend worrying about theories for which we have evidence, and this isn’t one of those. Moreover, it’s not even clear that Nietzsche thought it was true as a physical theory. So, to add to the prior advice, only worry about theories for which we have evidence and that the theorizer thinks are probably true, and this isn’t one of those.

If you’re being spooked by a concept then consulting Philosophy is rarely helpful, because we don’t have many definitive answers, and if there’s a paper saying something is true there will be one saying it’s false. This is especially confounded by the fact that you seem scared of this prospect despite the fact that you seemingly have literally no reason to believe in it, signalling this is not a reason driven process at all, and thus make it seem pointless to offer you reasons on the matter.
But anyway maybe you can say what you understand eternal recurrence is and why it has spooked you.
Nietzsche would say your terror at the eternal return shows your life is ruled by nihilism; to live a life whose infinite repetition could be affirmed and to have the force to affirm such a life is a key aspect of the overman and part of Nietzsche’s philosophical project is developing the conceptual tools to advance to such a noble state.

As for your fears, in my view the literal reading of the eternal return is both not what FN was saying and a pretty low-probability scenario so I think you can relax. But no, no one has “debunked” it.  Poincare recurrence is similar to the eternal recurrence proposed by Nietzsche, demons aside. As far as I have read it seems like it is possible over extremely extremely, ludicrously long timescales, but that it has not been conclusively proven to exist/occur.

Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Psalm 94:18–19 When I thought, “My foot slips,” Your steadfast love, O LORD, helped me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Have an amazing week. God bless. 💖❤

Psalm 34:4–5, 8 I sought the LORD, and He answered me and delivered me from all
my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

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Proverbs 3:5–6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not learn on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.

Romans 15:13 (NIV) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 6:31–34 (NIV) “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or “What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

1 Peter 5:6–7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.

Isaiah 41:13 “For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you,
‘Fear not, I am the one who helps you.'”

Romans 15:13 (NIV) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 3:5–6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not learn on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.

Romans 15:13 (NIV) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


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Proverbs 3:5–6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not learn on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.

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What is Memory Loss

How your memory really works, and how it changes as you age
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Have you ever mixed up the names of your children? Struggled to remember key dates or the year a loved one died? Recent news of mental lapses by President Biden and Donald Trump have sparked a national conversation and social media posts about what memory mistakes really mean about aging and brain health.

Matt Griffin, 54, who works in communications for a school district in Vancouver, Wash., said he thinks about his father, Grady Griffin, every day, and he remembers what he was doing the night his father died. But he can’t remember the exact date of his death from terminal brain and lung cancer. (He looked it up, and it was 19 years ago this month.)
“I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect everybody to recall everything,” he said.

“The thing I know that is ever present is my dad is gone, and I miss him.”
Experts agree. Memory, no matter what your age, is fallible and malleable. Our brain processes incalculable amounts of information at a given time, and there’s simply not room for all of it to be stored. And surprisingly, the act of forgetting is an important
aspect of memory.

Mental acuity has been a flash point affecting both presidential candidates, but it has taken on new urgency following a special counsel report into Biden’s handling of classified documents. The report noted that Biden, 81, had trouble recalling the years he served as vice president and didn’t remember the exact date his son Beau had died, among other issues. Trump, 77, has struggled with his own memory lapses, most recently confusing former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, his last-remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

The Washington Post interviewed several memory experts.
They noted that the cognitive abilities of Biden and Trump can’t be evaluated based on anecdotal memory lapses. Formal evaluations are needed to truly assess someone’s brain health. But they noted that memory lapses at any age are surprisingly normal and, for most people, aren’t a signal of mental decline.

“Most of us have memory slips all the time,” said Earl K. Miller, professor of neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We can’t remember where we put our car keys. We can’t remember dates or names. But we don’t really notice the mistakes when we’re young. It’s when people get older that mistakes in memory seem to have more significance. Memory lapse really is normal at every stage of life.”

How our memories work
Our brain can process and hold vast amounts of information, but it has limits.
Facts, dates and events can be stored and recalled for days and weeks — or even across
a lifetime. As new memories are created, the brain must prioritize important memories,
making it more difficult to recall less important details or events.

When we encounter new information, our brains encode it with changes in neurons in the hippocampus, an important memory center, as well as other areas. These groups of cells work together to hold onto the specific information of a memory, creating a memory trace, known as an engram.
Much of this information is forgotten unless it is stored during memory consolidation, which often happens during sleep, making the memories more stable and long-term. These neurons become active when the event happens and, “when you recall the memory, they’re active again,” said Sheena Josselyn, a senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who studies memory.
Unlike a computer, our memories are not fixed and permanent. Each time we access and reconsolidate a memory, it is subject to change. Sometimes, when we have conversations about a memory or see news footage related to it, the mind can recombine these experiences and wrongly store them as memories.

That’s why the stories we tell about our real memories may shift and change over time,
and misremembering is common. Mitt Romney once shared a memory about a jubilee in Detroit that took place before he was born. Hillary Clinton once spoke of being under sniper fire in Bosnia, only to later admit that she had her facts wrong.
“Memory is never perfect even when it seems perfect,” said Miller.
“We remember what we want to remember. That’s true for everyone at every stage of life. If we literally remembered everything, it would be too much for our brains. Our brains would be completely overwhelmed. We always have selective memory.”

Why forgetting is necessary
What we remember tends to be distinctive, emotionally loaded and deemed worthy of reflecting upon in our heads after the event happened. Our memories are centered on our life stories and what has affected us the most. As a consequence, more insignificant details are often cast off.

Our imperfect recollections are the price we pay for a memory system that is adapted to the things we want to remember in our everyday lives.
“We don’t want a memory system that’s going to encode every single trivial detail of our experience and retain that over time,” said Daniel Schacter, psychology professor at Harvard University and author of “The Seven Sins of Memory,” which covers the common ways our memories are forgotten or distorted.
“The possible consequences of retaining every detail of every experience might be a very cluttered mind and an inability to sort through relevant and irrelevant experiences,” Schacter said. “So the fact that we don’t encode and retain typically every detail of every experience leaves us prone to forgetting, but on balance is probably a good thing because we end up, by and large, remembering the most important things.”

According to Josselyn, forgetting allows us to identify important knowledge from our experiences as we age.
“We tend to lose the non-important things so we can extract the important principles,” Josselyn said. “Rather than remembering the time and details, we remember the concepts and the generalized principles.”

How memory changes as we age
“It’s very clear that there are a number of changes that occur with aging and cognition
that are just part of getting older,” said Bradford Dickerson, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who’s studied cognitive super-agers.
Declines in the ability to think and remember among the elderly are broad and almost universal, he continued. “There’s just not much cognitively that’s better in an 80-year-old than in a 20-year-old.”

“The raw power of our memory tends to peak in our early twenties,” said Thomas Wisniewski, a professor of neurology, pathology and psychiatry at NYU’s Langone Health. Mental acuity begins a long, slow slide from then on.
Some of this decline probably is due to structural changes that occur throughout the brain, starting by midlife, said Jason Shepherd, an associate professor of neurobiology at the University of Utah. Synapses, the connections between neurons, can weaken. Brain cells may die. Some of the brain’s tissue becomes tattered and thin.
The most obvious impacts of age involve processing speed, Dickerson said. Everything gets slower. “And that’s not just cognition. Movement slows. Sensory processing slows.”
The effects can be seen most clearly during speech, he said, an activity that takes place at relatively high speeds and requires considerable mental juggling and swift recall. “But word retrieval becomes more difficult with age, so people stumble while talking,” he said. “It’s not that they don’t know what a word means, but retrieving it takes more time.”

Aging also “magnifies any vulnerabilities that already exist,” he said.
“If someone had difficulties speaking as a young adult, for instance, then getting older is likely to worsen the problem.”
At the same time, older brains can be especially susceptible to stress, distraction and fatigue, he said, all of which worsen memory recall.
Still, older brains can often compensate for their growing weakness, he and other researchers point out. “There’s evidence that older adults can strategically focus memory” on the most important information, Schacter said.
Older brains often become more adept than younger brains at filtering irrelevant information or at making connections between experiences, the researchers agreed, because they’ve had more of them.
“An older brain is a wiser brain. It has experience to draw on,” Miller said.
“The thing I’d most like people to understand is that, yes, there is some normal cognitive decline during aging,” Shepherd said. “But it’s not a disease state. It’s part of life.”

Wisniewski agreed. “We should not be prejudiced about age” and thinking ability, he said. “It’s true that age is the primary risk factor” for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of memory loss. “But many very elderly people remain quite sharp, mentally, and they also have a great depth of wisdom and experience.”

Why we often forget dates and names
Some types of information are harder to hold onto.
Remembering dates and names can be particularly difficult unless we make a point of rehearsing and strengthening those memories, experts say. Memory for “when an event happened is something that for everyone, regardless of age, is one of the most vulnerable aspects of memory,” Schacter said.

Names are also harder to recall because they “have no inherent meaning — they’re kind of arbitrary,” Schacter said. (A phenomenon called the Baker-baker paradox highlights that it’s harder to remember the name Baker than if the person’s job was a baker, because we have more information about the occupation than the name.)
The inability to retrieve names, even those we know well, is a common complaint of aging. Though often something people find worrisome, by itself, this is not a sign of cognitive issues, Schacter said.
On social media, some people criticized the special prosecutor for singling out Biden’s memory lapses related to the death of his son, noting that they also have forgotten the date or year a family member died. “Trauma does that,” one person wrote.
“Pretty bad for the special council to criticize Biden for not recalling the details of his son’s death,” Michael Lawson, 36, an architect who lives in Roanoke, wrote on Threads.
“My mom died more than ten years ago, and the day of her death is very memorable but not one I actively maintain in my memory library.”

In an interview, Lawson said his mother, Susan Lawson, died at 53, three years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Lawson said he remembers his mom’s hospice room, the table where the family would gather to eat a meal or play board games and the window that looked out to a garden.

“The visual of that room is one of those things that stands out,” Lawson said.
“The granularity of the detail isn’t something that I need to go back to,” Lawson said.
“The fuzzy memories, the way I’m not totally clear on exactly what she said, here and there, is fine with me.”
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Factoring in Old AGE

100-year-old Oklahoma woman celebrates “25th birthday” on Leap Day
February 28, 2024 / 1:27 PM EST / CBS News

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An Oklahoma woman is turning 100 on a Leap Day – so it’s technically only her 25th birthday. Because Feb. 29 only comes every four years, Mary Lea Forsythe has only been able to celebrate on the actual day a handful of times over her long life.
She was honored by the Centenarians of Oklahoma ahead of her big day.
The nonprofit organization honors people who are 100 years old or older.
Forsythe, of Sand Springs, OK, sang in the chorus in high school and “loves all
things musical and plays the piano and mandolin,” according to the organization. 
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“Mary Lea reminds us to all Read the Bible,” the organization said.
A birthday party was held for Forsythe by the daughters of the American Revolution
Osage Hills Chapter, where she was inducted as an Oklahoma centenarian. CBS News
has reached out to the DAR and Centenarians of Oklahoma for more information and
is awaiting a response.

The odds of being born on Leap Day
The odds of being born on Feb. 29 is about 1-in-1,461 and there are
only about 5 million people in the world born on this day, according to History.com.
In 2020, a New York mother made headlines for giving birth on Leap Day – for the second time. Lindsay Demchak’s first baby, Omri, was born on February 29, 2016. Her second baby, Scout, was born February 29, 2020. The last time parents welcomed back-to-back Leap Year babies was 1960, Nikki Battiste reported on “CBS Mornings.” 
Their parents said they plan on celebrating their birthdays on different days
when it’s not a Leap Year and will have a big celebration for both of them every four years.
On the Leap Day when Scout was born, four other babies were born at the same hospital — including a pair of twins.

What is a Leap Year?
A year is 365 days, but technically it takes the Earth slightly longer to orbit around the sun.
The Earth takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds – or 365.2422 days – to fully orbit the sun, according to NASA. Those extra hours are eliminated from the calendar most years. But every four years, an extra day is added to February so the calendar and seasons don’t get out of sync. If this didn’t happen, the extra hours would add up over time and seasons would start to skew.
“For example, say that July is a warm, summer month where you live. If we never had leap years, all those missing hours would add up into days, weeks and even months,” according to NASA. “Eventually, in a few hundred years, July will actually take place in the cold winter months!”

When is the next Leap Year?
The addition of February 29, known as a Leap Day,
to the 2024 calendar signifies we are in a Leap Year. There are Leap Days every four years.
The next Leap Year Days are Tuesday, Feb. 29, 2028; Sunday, Feb. 29, 2032, and Friday, Feb. 29, 2036.

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New study has an answer for why some people live to be over 100.
Throughout history, brilliant minds have tried to figure out the secret behind living longer. Much of the research has credited diet and exercise, but a group of scientists expanded on previous data to suggest another theory. 
Researchers from Boston University and Tufts Medical Center found people who live to be 100 years old or older – called centenarians – may have a unique composition of immune cells that’s highly protective against illnesses, according to a study published Friday in the peer-reviewed journal Lancet eBiomedicine.

“Our data support the hypothesis that centenarians have protective factors that enable (them) to recover from disease and reach extreme old ages,” said lead author Tanya Karagiannis, a senior bioinformatician at the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.

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People with normal immune systems are exposed to infections, recover from them, and learn to adapt to future infections. While the immune system’s ability to respond to infections declines with age, scientists hypothesized this may be different for centenarians.

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Researchers analyzed immune cells circulating in the blood taken from seven centenarian participants in North America and identified immune-specific patterns of aging and extreme human longevity.
They compared this information with other publicly available data that looked at immune cells from people ranging across the human lifespan and found centenarians’ immune profile did not follow trends associated with natural aging. 
The findings “provide support to the hypothesis that centenarians are enriched with protective factors that increase their ability to recover from infections,” said senior author Paola Sebastiani, director of the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.

It’s unclear if this unique immunological ability is genetic, naturally occurring, or a confluence of outside factors, said senior author Stefano Monti, associate professor of medicine, biostatistics, and bioinformatics at Boston University’s school of medicine. 
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Study authors hope the report’s findings build on
existing research that could help develop therapeutics for the world’s aging population.
“Centenarians, and their exceptional longevity, provide a ‘blueprint’ for how we might
live more productive, healthful lives,” said senior author George J. Murphy, associate professor of medicine at Boston University’s school of medicine. 
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“What’s wrong?” I ask.

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I’m sitting with my 88-year-old dad in his tiny room in the dementia ward of a care center. We’re watching an Italian documentary about a fisherman and his dog who work in freezing weather on Lake Como. “What a lousy job,” Dad says.   Italy’s Famed Lake Como Records Lowest-Ever Water Levels (treehugger.com)
 He’s reading the subtitles. The fisherman wants his son to follow in his career.
“Why would he do that?” Dad snorts. The fishermen and scientists puzzle about why fish are disappearing from the lake. “Well … you’re fishing,” Dad says, with a bemused smile. Now the fisherman’s teen daughter is seeking her own path. “What matters is to be free,” she says. “I agree,” Dad says. He repeats: “What matters is to be free.”  
 Witty, pithy and poignant repartee with the subtitles of an Italian documentary.
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Dad has dementia. But it’s not very progressive. He never forgets who he is or who we are, and he has bursts of insight and focus. But his hearing is poor, and he no longer reads much. He walks with a shuffling, unsteady gait. He muddles through the day, sleeping too much. He’s then often wakeful at night. He exercises only under duress. He can’t do his own laundry or cooking. He has urinary incontinence. He asks repetitive questions. With unwashed hands he gloms sliced turkey from the fridge. He tries to feed the cat chocolate milk.
The Mayo Clinic estimates that 6.5 million Americans now have Alzheimer’s — the most common form of dementia. The gap between diagnosis and death for Alzheimer’s, Mayo says, ranges from 3 to 11 years. The average age for an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is 80, says
Dr. Lon Schneider, a professor of psychiatry, neurology and gerontology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. “People die with Alzheimer’s,” Schneider says, “more than they die from it.” 
Dr. Lon Schneider, who serves on the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, once told me that if I occasionally forget where I left my keys, there’s no cause for concern unless I find them in the refrigerator. When I asked him about cognitive maintenance,
he sent me a Lancet report that identified 12 risk factors for dementia.
The 12 are excessive alcohol consumption, head injury, exposure to air pollution,
lack of education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes and infrequent social contact. So avoiding those things,
to the extent possible, might be more helpful than mastering Sudoku.
But as we all know, medical science has a long history of changing its mind about what’s good or bad for us, and there is no more mysterious organ in the body than the brain.

And although experts don’t completely understand it, the ones I spoke to
said that learning new things — such as music and language — might be helpful.
That’s why I was particularly interested in an email from Michael Suttle, a Dana Point, Calif., resident who shared a success story.
Back in 2010, when he was in his late 50s, Suttle, a software salesman, ocean swimmer and trumpet player, found himself forgetting phone numbers and appointments. It got so bad that he began writing down his daily schedule so he wouldn’t miss meetings.

About four years later, he said, “I noticed a remarkable improvement in short-term memory and wondered why.”
The improvement happened just as Suttle rededicated himself to music, practiced hard and won a seat in the newly formed Dana Point Symphony Orchestra. He also joined Symphony Irvine, and being a concert performer required him to learn difficult new music, including Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies, and Mahler’s Third,
Fourth and Fifth.
“Plus, the art of executing these onstage in front of a packed house requires a ton of concentration,” said Suttle, who found that he no longer needed to write down his daily schedule.
I’d selfishly like to think it was the music that turned things around for Suttle, because
I’ve been putting in time on my guitar and learning Spanish. But without large studies over long stretches, it’s hard to reach strong conclusions about any of this. It might well be that for Suttle, having a specific goal and new social networks were as helpful to him as playing the music.
Daniel Levitin, a musician and neuroscientist who poo-poohs the benefits of word games in his book “Successful Aging,” told me it’s a little easier to make a case for music. When I told him about Suttle, Levitin — who also wrote “This Is Your Brain on Music” — said it’s likely that decoding music he’d never played before was key, challenging his fingers to process complex signals from his brain.
“There is some possibility that physical and mental tasks in tandem are beneficial,” Levitin said. “You cannot make a musical sound without moving something,” and this taxes the brain in ways that create “new layers of connectivity.” You won’t “stave off Alzheimer’s,” Levitin said, but you might “stave off the noticeable effects of it.”
One more argument for the benefits of music comes from a small short-term memory study that tested adults between 60 and 80. Theodore Zanto, director of the UC San Francisco Neuroscape’s Neuroscience Division, told me that 20 participants played a word search game for 20 minutes each day on a tablet, and 20 more played a game that required them to remember and repeat a musical rhythm.
Participants did a digital facial recognition test before and after, taxing their short-term memory skills. After the eight weeks of games, the word search group showed no improvement, but the music group showed a 4% improvement.
“It’s not a whopping change,” said Zanto, but it suggests “maybe you can get a bit of an edge” through music.
Or through other tasks that challenge the mind or muscle.
“We push kids to learn things all the time, but we don’t push ourselves at the other end,” Kawas said. “I don’t think it’s about any particular activity, but the more the brain is challenged, probably the better it is.”
So if you have a favorite puzzle, keep playing. But when you get pretty good, step up
to the next challenge, and it’s never too late to learn an instrument or new language.
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The National Institutes of Health says there are four main types of dementia. Alzheimer’s predominates, with the rest distributed among vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy body (Robin Williams), frontotemporal dementia (Bruce Willis) or a combination of these. Then there is the 5 or 6 percent slice that falls outside these boxes.
Most elderly patients who have one form of dementia also have bits of another,
Schneider says, and dementia symptoms seen in life often do not fit smoothly with
results in postmortems. It’s all still rather fuzzy, he says.
Dad’s key symptoms don’t match the main boxes. He lacks the muscle rigidity of
Lewy body; the sharply progressive decline of Alzheimer’s; the cardiovascular, stroke or circulation risk factors of vascular dementia; or the early onset and personality factors of frontotemporal dementia.
But Dad’s case is not entirely nebulous. For over a decade he has had a distinctive shuffling gait, bouts of vertigo, urinary incontinence and mental fog. It turns out these are the key markers of normal pressure hydrocephalus, an odd name for an abnormal and rare condition, in which cerebrospinal fluid pools in and puts pressure on the brain.  “That’s my son!” he says, grabbing my arm and fixing me with piercing blue eyes. “Don’t leave me!” he pleads.
As a teenager in Canada, Dad once took a hockey puck to the head. Seven decades later, he can vividly narrate that moment: he’s skating backwards on defense, the opposing player launches a slapshot, the puck careens off his temple into the stands, they patch him up and send him back on the ice. He touches his temple where the puck hit. All his life he’s had a soft spot there.
From my verbal description, Schneider agrees that normal pressure hydrocephalus sounds highly likely, though he suspects some degree of other dementia as well. Normal pressure hydrocephalus is one of the few dementia diagnoses that is highly treatable with a shunt that drains fluid from the area. Dad got his shunt in 2011. It’s helped but managing it has been difficult. There are limits to what it can do. 
Now it’s the summer of 2022. 
For over a decade, Dad’s mental fog has remained fairly static. In July he was nearly knocked out with an illness that left him incapacitated for weeks; he feared he was dying. He was taken to a local care center, the dementia ward. The illness passed, and he recovers physical strength. Now he’s confused and lonely. One afternoon I found him agitated in the hallway. He’s causing trouble. An attendant raises the possibility of sedatives. 

Dad sees me.
“That’s my son!” he says, grabbing my arm and fixing me with piercing blue eyes.
Don’t leave me!” he pleads. We walked to his room. We talk. His plea becomes a mandate.
For the next two months, I come every afternoon directly from work and stay late, usually after 10 p.m. My brother, Stuart, does the same with the morning shift.
Dad and I go on outings most every day, to mountains and rivers, to an aquarium, to visit my grandkids or his sister-in-law. At night we watch movies and documentaries. 
One evening, delayed, I arrive at 6:30 p.m. Dad’s sitting in the dining room.
A nurse walks by, leans over and says to him, “I told you he would come.”
His mood improves. Now he’s cheerful and courteous to staff. “You remind me of my Aunt Liesl,” he tells a nurse. “In what way?” “She was coquettish,” he says. There’s that impish smile. A nurse wants to change his sweater. “It has food on it,” she says. “Are you hungry?” he asks. The care staff laughed with him. He’s popular. 

But Dad wants to live with family. We assess our shared capacities and resources and find it feasible. Robust in-home nursing support is no more expensive than the care center, we realize. And Dad has the capacity to decide. On October 6, he left the care center to live with family. Our minds spin with questions. Science has mapped the human genome,
but we know next to nothing about how the brain fuses the body and soul.

Dying with disease rather than from it

On that first night, he converses for 40 minutes with Sarah, my adult daughter. My wife and I witnessed the conversation but are not involved. They discuss Sarah’s recent divorce. “Papa began asking me a series of very insightful questions,” she later recounts. “He then asked what I learned from the experience. 
He asked if I would consider marrying again and, if so, how soon. He asked if I was going to have a better life now. The whole time he was extremely engaged and listened carefully to all my answers. The whole conversation was his idea, not spurred on or encouraged by anyone else. He was the one who kept it going.”
“I have had many conversations in the past eight months about my divorce,” Sarah says, “but I don’t think I have ever had one where so many insightful and compassionate questions were asked. He was so focused on me the whole time, and so kind.
It was a great experience, and I felt a strong connection to him through it.”
I had asked Dad at the care center one night if he knew the Latin phrase fait accompli.
“Of course,” he said. “I was a lawyer.” One night several of us watch “Knives Out,” a witty murder mystery with a large cast of narcissistic characters. Dad watches the entire film, leaning forward, focused. After the climax, during the resolution scenes, he removes his headphones and appears distressed. 
“What’s wrong?” I ask.
“How do these people live with themselves?”
“You do know it’s fiction?” I test.
“Yes, but it’s very realistic.” 
“OK. To be fair, there are people like that.”
“Yes, I know,” he says. “I was a lawyer.”
Dementia experts I speak with are not surprised that Dad remembered the hockey injury. Deeply rooted memories from early youth often survive long into dementia. But his capacity for ethical abstraction after watching “Knives Out”? That is another matter.
There is a flavor of “Awakenings” here, the story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who used an experimental drug to temporarily restore consciousness to victims of encephalitis lethargica, or the sleeping-sickness, who had been catatonic for decades. The drug treatment proved temporary, but it opened a window into the unyielding humanity of those whose minds seem to slumber.

Months later, speaking with Schneider at USC, I pose the haunting question first formed as I watched Dad respond cogently to the subtitles of an Italian documentary. How many dementia patients have such capacity? 
“We don’t know,” Schneider says, “because it hasn’t been tried.”
Few patients, he says, receive sustained time and attention from loved and trusted people, the conditions that could evoke lucidity. “If you’re told that Alzheimer’s disease is the worst thing in the world,” he says, “then you see a blank face and you say, ‘Oh, that’s Alzheimer’s disease. I’ve lost them.’ And then you don’t engage.”
During his last month in the care center, Dad got physically weaker. We realized too late that the care center diet had ignored his missing dentures. He couldn’t chew. He lost muscle mass. On October 24, after he left the care center, a geriatrician doctor diagnosed him with calorie and protein malnutrition.
“What we do know is that, as the chemical window closed, another awakening took place; that the human spirit is more powerful than any drug.”

Now he eats even less and walks not at all. There is an element of choice here.
His life is grueling. He is weary. Swallowing is now hard and talking is difficult.
On December 6, he leaves us, peacefully, in his own bed in his own room in our home.
We are at peace. But our minds spin with questions. Science has mapped the human genome, but we know next to nothing about how the brain fuses the body and soul. Wherever the answers lie, I believe, friendship, family and human relations will not be far behind. “Feeling the fullness of the presence of the world,” 
In his final days, Dad and Sarah enjoyed a wordless connection.
“He could barely communicate,” she later wrote, “but he was so sweet and gentle. I would come in, and he would be smiling peacefully, watching TV or listening to music. He would look over, and his eyes would light up to see me. I would sit with him and hold his hand. Sometimes his cat, Sofi, was with him, and he would point to her at the end of the bed, silently telling me, ‘Look. Isn’t Sofi cute?’ 
I would laugh and confirm that, yes, she was indeed cute. Then he would point to his big-eyed stuffed sloth with the same smile. That twinkle in his eye stayed with him. I hope that when I reach the other side, he’ll be there to greet me with a witty comment and a wry smile.”  
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Oliver Sacks wrote in “Awakenings,” “depends on feeling the fullness of another person,
as a person, reality is given to us by the reality of people; reality is taken from us by the unreality of un-people; our sense of reality, of trust, of security, is critically dependent on a human relation. A single good relation is a life-line in trouble, a pole-star and compass in the ocean of trouble.” 

Fifty years have passed since the 1973 publication of Awakenings, a remarkable book
by a remarkable author, Oliver Sacks.1 At the time he wrote it, Sacks was a newly minted neurologist and, approaching age 40 years, struggling to find his place in the world.
By chance, he sought work at a hospital in New York that housed patients who, decades earlier, contracted encephalitis lethargica. First encountered in Vienna in 1916, the epidemic of this mysterious malady (also known as Von Economo Encephalitis) spread worldwide over the following decade, killing thousands young and old.
Survivors developed lasting neurologic impairments including Parkinsonism and catatonic states. For decades afterward, hundreds of victims remained in chronic care wards. As recounted in Awakenings and in a later autobiographical memoir,4 Sacks was fascinated by the aftermath of this disorder. He was equally intrigued as to how his patients might respond to levodopa; a novel treatment recently developed for Parkinson disease. Previously, a few English postencephalitic patients had shown improvements with levodopa.5 Sacks initiated a small placebo-controlled trial and, after encountering promising results, began to treat other postencephalitic survivors. Although the extraordinary pharmacologic outcomes he encountered might have been sufficient material for a good tale, Sacks envisioned a far more encompassing project for his book. Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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After Decades of Research

When her husband was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in 2015.

 Elizabeth Pan was devastated by the lack of options to slow his inevitable decline. But she was encouraged when she discovered the work of a UCLA neurologist, Dr. Dale Bredesen, – Search Videos (bing.com) who offered a comprehensive lifestyle management program to halt or even reverse cognitive decline in patients like her husband.
After decades of research, Bredesen had concluded that more than 36 drivers of Alzheimer’s cumulatively contribute to the loss of mental acuity. They range from
chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes to vitamin and hormonal deficiencies, undiagnosed infections and even long-term exposures to toxic substances.

Bredesen’s impressive academic credentials lent legitimacy to his approach.
Pan paid $4,000 to a doctor trained in Bredesen’s program for a consultation and a series of extensive laboratory tests, and then was referred to another doctor, who devised a stringent regimen of dietary changes that entailed cutting out all sugars; eating a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet; and adhering to a complex regimen of meditation, vigorous daily exercise and about a dozen nutritional supplements each day (at about $200 a month). Pan said she had extensive mold remediation done in her home after the Bredesen
doctors told her the substance could be hurting her husband’s brain.
But two years passed, she said, and her husband, Wayne, was steadily declining.
To make matters worse, he had lost more than 60 pounds because he didn’t like the food on the diet. In April, he died. “I imagine it works in some people and also doesn’t work in others,” said Pan, who lives in Oakton, Virginia. “But there’s no way to tell ahead of time
if it will work for you.” 

 Bredesen wrote the best-selling 2017 book “The End of Alzheimer’s” and has promoted
his ideas in talks to community groups around the country and on radio and TV programs like “The Dr. Oz Show.” He has also started his own company, Apollo Health, to market his program and train and provide referrals for practitioners.
Unlike other self-help regimens, Bredesen said, his program is an intensely personalized and scientific approach to counteract each individual’s specific deficits by “optimizing the physical body and understanding the molecular drivers of the disease,” he told KHN in a November phone interview. “The vast majority of people improve” as long as they adhere to the regimen.

Bredesen’s peers acknowledge him as an expert on aging. A former postdoctoral fellow under Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner at the University of California-San Francisco, Bredesen presided over a well-funded lab at UCLA for more than five years. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 1989 and also founded the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Marin County. He has written or co-authored more than 200 papers.

But colleagues are critical of what they see as his commercial promotion of a largely unproven and costly regimen. They say he strays from long-established scientific norms by relying on anecdotal reports from patients, rather than providing evidence with rigorous research.
“He’s an exceptional scientist,” said George Perry, a neuroscientist
at the University of Texas-San Antonio. “But monetizing this is a turnoff.”
“I have seen desperate patients and family members clean out their bank accounts and believe this will help them with every ounce of their being,” said Dr. Joanna Hellmuth,
a neurologist in the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF. “They are clinging to hope.”

Many of the lifestyle changes Bredesen promotes are known to be helpful.
“The protocol itself is based on very low-quality data, and I worry that vulnerable
patients and family members may not understand that,” said Hellmuth.
“He trained here” — at UCSF — “so he knows better.”
The Bredesen package doesn’t come cheap. He has built a network of practitioner-followers by training them in his protocol — at $1,800 a pop — in seminars sponsored
by the Institute for Functional Medicine, which emphasizes alternative approaches to managing disease. Apollo Health also offers two-week training sessions for a $1,500 fee.

Once trained in his ReCODE Program, medical professionals charge patients upward of $300 for a consultation and as much as $10,500 for eight- to 15-month treatment packages. For the ReCODE protocol, aimed at people already suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive decline, Apollo Health charges an initial $1,399 fee for a referral to a local practitioner that includes an assessment and extensive laboratory tests. Apollo then offers $75-per-month subscriptions that provide cognitive games and online support, and links to another company that offers dietary supplements for an additional $150 to $450 a month. Insurance generally covers little of these costs.
Apollo Health, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, offers a protocol geared toward those who have a family history of dementia or want to prevent cognitive decline.

Bredesen estimates that about 5,000 people have done the ReCODE program.
The fees are a bargain, Bredesen said, if they slow decline enough to prevent someone from being placed in a nursing home, where yearly costs can climb past $100,000.
Bredesen and his company are tapping into the desperation that has grown out of the failure of a decades-long scientific quest for effective Alzheimer’s treatments. Much of the research money in the field has narrowly focused on amyloid — the barnacle-like gunk that collects outside nerve cells and interferes with the brain’s signaling system — as the main culprits behind cognitive decline. 
Drugmakers have tried repeatedly, and thus far without much success, to invent a trillion-dollar anti-amyloid drug. There’s been less emphasis in the field on the lifestyle choices that Bredesen stresses.  “Amyloids sucked up all the air in the room,” said Dr. Lon Schneider, an Alzheimer’s researcher and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Growing evidence shows lifestyle changes help delay the progress of the mind-robbing disease. An exhaustive Lancet report in August identified a long list of risk factors for dementia, including excessive drinking, exposure to air pollution, obesity, loss of hearing, smoking, depression, lack of exercise and social isolation. Controlling these factors — which can be done on the cheap — could delay or even prevent up to 40% of dementia cases, according to the report.
Bredesen’s program involves all these practices, with personalized bells and whistles like intermittent fasting, meditation and supplements. Bredesen’s scientific peers question whether data supports his micromanaged approach over plain-vanilla healthy living.

Bredesen has published three papers showing positive results in many patients following his approach, but critics say he has fallen short of proving his method’s effectiveness.
The papers lack details on which protocol elements were followed, or the treatment duration, UCSF’s Hellmuth said. Nor do they explain how cognitive tests were conducted or evaluated, so it’s difficult to gauge whether improvements were due to the intervention, chance variations in performance or an assortment of other variables, she said.
Bredesen shrugs off the criticism: “We want things to be in an open-access journal so everybody can read it. These are still peer-reviewed journals. So, what’s the problem?”

Another problem raised about Bredesen’s enterprise is the lack of quality control, which he acknowledges. Apollo-trained “certified practitioners” can include everyone from nurses and dietitians to chiropractors and health coaches. Practitioners with varying degrees of training and competence can take his classes and hang out a shingle. That’s a painful fact for some who buy the package.
“I had the impression these practitioners were certified, but I realize they all had just taken a two-week course,” said a Virginia man who requested anonymity to protect his wife’s privacy. He said that he had spent more than $15,000 on tests and treatments for his ailing spouse and that six months into the program, earlier this year, she had failed to improve.

Bredesen said he and his staff were reviewing “who’s getting the best results and who’s getting the worst results,” and intended to cut poor performers out of the network.
“We’ll make it so that you can only see the people getting the best results,” he said.
Colleagues say that to test whether Bredesen’s method works it needs to be subjected
to a placebo-controlled study, the gold standard of medical research, in which half the participants get the treatment while the other half don’t.
In the absence of rigorous studies, said USC’s Dr. Lon Schneider, – Search (bing.com)Schneider, a co-author of the Lancet report, “saying you can ‘end Alzheimer’s now  and this is how you do it’ is overpromising and oversimplifying. And a lot of it is just common sense.”  I’m A Breast Cancer Survivor. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known About Self-Checks (msn.com)

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